Carving a Capstone: Senior Design at the University of Delaware

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Thanks to my colleagues in Senior Design, who, along with many classes of fine students, have made the experience challenging and rewarding: James F. Duffield, P.E., founder of Duffield Associates, Wilmington, Delaware; Jeffrey M. Bross, P.E., President, Duffield Associates, Wilmington; Edwin P. Kuipers, P.E., Design Services Engineer, Delaware Department of Transportation, Dover, Delaware; John M. Sentman III, P.E., Director, Process & Pharmaceutical Engineering, Delaware Engineering and Design Corporation, Newark, Delaware; Paul T. Imhoff, PhD, P.E., Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware; and Michael J. Chajes, PhD, P.E., Chariman, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware. Jeffrey Bross and Paul Imhoff kindly provided insightful critical review of this paper, more than once, promoting much improvement. Jim Duffield and Jeffrey Bross graciously invited the writer to join the Senior Design course many years ago in its formative stages, thus creating the story and enlisting the scribe.